1st Edition

Cultural Democracy Now What It Means and Why We Need It

By Owen Kelly Copyright 2023
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

Positioning cultural democracy in a historical context and in a context of adjacent movements such as the creative commons, open source movement, and maker movement, this book goes back to first principles and asks what personhood means in the twenty-first century, what cultural democracy means, why we should want it, and how we can work towards it. In this new book, the author provides a... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Autonomous Vehicles

1. The Mind and the Body

2. Problems with Selfhood

3. Dennett's Solution

4. Narratives and Consciousness

5. Darwin and Evolution

6. Genes and Memes

7. Late to the Party

Part II: Cultural Landscapes

8. The First Tools - Language and numbers

9. The Nature of Tools - Conviviality

10. Gamification - Shopping as Theatre

11. Selling Ourselves - Quantified Data

12. The Price of Fame - Film and Celebrity

13. Liking our Selves - Social Media

14. Buying the Culture - IP and Creativity

Part III: Making a Difference

15. Community, Citizenship, and Creativity

16. Codifying Culture

17. Cultural Democracy - A Definition

18. Cultural Democracy and Community

19. Cultural Democracy and Economics

20. Cultural Democracy and Politics

21. ALL Together Now

Acknowledgements

Continuing…

A Final Word about Language

Biography

Owen Kelly writes and researches as Principal Lecturer Emeritus in online media at Arcada, a university of applied science, in Helsinki. He has worked as a community artist, a cultural consultant, a soundscaper, and a multimedia programmer. He is the author of Community, Art and the State, Digital Creativity, and Ambient Learning and Self Authorship, and has an ongoing interest in developing convivial tools that assist in the struggle for cultural democracy.